This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

Objective To study physicians’ personal preferences for end-of-life practices, including life-sustaining and life-shortening practices, and the factors that influence preferences. Design A ...

Predictive tools made possible by advances in machine learning techniques may help clinicians make more accurate decisions about who should be allocated costly therapies, such as immunotherapy, which ...

1 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of ...

Design of clinical trials for germline gene editing stretches current accepted standards for human subjects research. Among the challenges involved is a set of issues concerning intergenerational ...

Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, Otago, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com One set of worries concerns authorship and whether it ...

In this article, I critique the commonly accepted distinction between commercial and altruistic surrogacy arrangements. The moral legitimacy of surrogacy, I claim, does not hinge on whether it is paid ...

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Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, Robert-Roessle-Clinic at the HELIOS Klinikum Berlin, Charite Medical School, Berlin, Germany Objectives: To elicit the perceptions and ...

Correspondence to Joshua James Hatherley, School of Historical, Philosophical, and International Studies, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3194, Australia; joshua.hatherley{at}monash.edu Artificial ...